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Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03
Closing the War.

The man who claims to have ordered
the last shot fred on the Confederate
side during the late unpleasantness is
Mr.. A. B. Faircloth, of Camilla, Ga,
q gentleman as modest rs he is brave.
The incident was told us by Captain
D. 81. Sanders, an old comrade in arms
of Mr.. Faircloth, and forms unique
feature in the unwritten history of the
great struggle. Mr.. Faircloth be-
longed to Company G, I'd Georgia
cavalry. This re - ient was for some
time associated with Terry's famous
Texas Rangers, whose exploits are
among the most highly priced tradi-
tions of the war. The intimacy that
grew up between these two regiments
was very close and tender, and re-
NAMED unbroken to the end A ranger
would succor I'd Georgia cavalryman
in distress as quickly as he would his
own brother. They fought together,
bivouacked together, and together they
went on many wild, adventurous raid.
Lee had surrendered. Johnston had
surrendered. Old Kirby Smith re-
manned at the head of armed resistance.
The Confederacy was in it's death
throes. Wheeler determined not to
surrender his men, but to force his way
across the country to join Smith west
OF the Mississippi. To this end he
procured the removal of his command
from Johnston's army, and started
upon one of the most hazardous re-
treats in the annals of war. While
everywhere Confederate troops were
grounding their arms, taking the oath
of allegiance to the United States Gov
ernment, and returning to their homes,
this little band under their gallant
leader refused to lower the stars and
bars.
! Wheeler's bold movement was kept
profound secret, known only to his
own men and General Johnston. All
thought that the war was over. The
Federals came freely into the lines of
their late foes, and there was general
intermingling of the "blue and gray"
1t fell to the lot of Company G to
guard Wheeler's rear. A barrel of
brandy was discovered just inside the
reserve picket line, and these old vet
erans, with true soldierly instinct,
soon tapped it and were fast get
ting into hilarious condition. The
Lieutenant in command of the picke ct
1 guards was in short time unable to
distinguish Confederate from n
"Yank, and was relieved by Mr.. Fair
cloth, the Orderly Sergeant. The
aroma of that brandy was waited to
the olfactories of the Union soldiers,
and soon troop of cavalry was seen
coming at headlong charge upon
that barrel. Sergeant Faircloth obeyed
the orders OF his chief, and the dash.
ing squadron was received with vol
ley from o picket line. They were
dumfounded, and without returning
the fire showed white flag. The Ser
geant advanced to parley with the
bearer Of the flag Of truce.
Whist the deuce did you fire for
Don't you know the war is over?" This
was ierked out by the spokesman OF
the other side.
! obeyed orders calmly replied
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

the sutler was around, condensed milk
could be obtained for it; when he was
not, it could be taken and relished,
clear and strong. It never hurt any of
us, and it did powers of good
The Commissary Department ought
to have large praise for it's care in the
issuing of pure coffee to the soldiers.
At time when it was the general prac-
tice and fashion to cheat the Govern
ment in contracting for everything the
soldier ate, drank, and wore, and when
colossal fortunes were thus coined out
of the necessities of the soldier, it is
pleasant to find one great commodity
that entered so largely into the very
life as we'll as the comfort of the
armies in which there was no fraud.
The coffee given us was uniformly
good. .
Perhaps some OF my comrades will
think that tobacco should be named
as one of the chief indispensables of
the soldier. 1t really was so, and there
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03
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GENERAL PARAGRAPHS,

"A meeting held under the auspices of
the Knights of Labor took place in Union
Square, New York, to protest against the
hanging of the condemned Chicago an
archists. Not more than 1900 persons
were present. Resolutions were passed
calling upon the courts of the nation to
Immediately release the condemned men,
and providing for the appointment of q
committee to proceed TO Illinois and wait
upon Gov. Oglesby if the supreme court
fails to grant stay.
During the last year S1,O95,579 has
been expended by the government in the
education OF Indian children.
AT a funeral near Sycamore, Ohio, the
team attached 10 the hearse ran away and
the vehicle was reduced TO kindling wood.
The coffin was dashed to the ground, the
lid torn of and the corpse relied into the
ditch. Other teams took fright, and q
general panic ensued. Women tainted
and jumped from carriages, wagons over
turned, horses became entangled in gen.
eral wreck, and several people were more
or less seriously injured. The Rev. How
ellis, who was to have conducted the fun
eral exercises, was perhaps fatally injured.
Eugene NJ. Converse, the lawyer who
deserted his wife year ago and took with
him $4,000 of other peoples money, has
been arraigned at Battle Creek, Michigan.
Converse had been travelling under the
name of E. Chas. Mason, and was seen
and identified Mt small reception recently,
while he was there on his wedding trim
with Miss Jennie M. Jones, lady of
wealth Of Waukesha, Ws. Converse threw
the detectives off tue track. He will be
proceeded against for bigamy, unless he
shows that he has been divorced. His new
wife is in Battle Creek using her money
freely to get him out of his predicament.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03
A Remarkab bic Career.

General John B. Turchin is one OF
the notable men of the war, and has
had career OF extraordinary vicissi-
tude. He is a Russian by birth, and
was educated for the staff of the Rus
sian army and served in that capacity
until his thirtysecond year, gaining
great distinction during the Circassian
and Crlmean wars. He then came to
this country, and at the outbreak Of
the war organized and led to the field
the Nineteenth Illinois, one of the very
best regiments in the Army of the Cum
berland. He was sent at first TO Mis-
souri,, where he electrified his COM
manders by an application of the old
military axiom that war must sup
port war. It will be remembered
at that time that we were Wig
orously engaged in the policy
of guarding the rebels chicken
coops and onion beds, line of opera
tion that did not at all suit The vigor-
GUS Russian, who was determined to
have his men we'll fed and cared for at
whatever cost it might be to the enemy.
In 1862 he was in command of bri-
gade in MitchelPs division, and was
near Athens, Ala, when General
Robert L. McCook was murdered by
guerrillas. In revenge his brigade
burned she town, and very funny
story is told of the Generals part in that
performance. Upon marching into the
town he announced that he was going
to sleep for two hours, and every per-
son knew how much he disliked
being aroused. When he finally
awoke from his siesta the town
was in flames. at which he expressed
official surprise. For this he was put
under arrest and court-martialed by
General Buell., who was. perhaps, the
most earnest execntant of the hen-coop
and onion-bed policy that we then had
in the field. The Colcnel was dismiss
ed from his regiment by the sentence
of the court-martial, but found COM
mission as Brigadier General awaiting
him when he returned home to Chicago,
and was received there with great
ovation. He assumed command of his
brigade in the Fourteenth Corps, and
with it did splendid service in the Tul-
lahoma, Chicksmauga, and subsequent
i campaigns. He now makes his home
at Radon. ILL.,, where he has settled
colony of Poles that he brought over
from Europe, and, though sixty-two
years old, is very vigorous and hearty,
md one OF the most interesting takers
that one can sit down with.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03
A Terrible Chamber.

"This chamber occupies the ground
floor of tx, crenulated tower, the
smallest of the three round towers on
the quay. In the center was an omin-
GUS and singular-looking object. It
was sort of long and narrow table of
lias-stone, joined with moulten lead
poured into the creyices, very heavy
and supported on three stone legs.
This table was about two and n. half
feet high, eight feet long, and twenty
inches wide. On looking up 1 saw a
great rusty iron hook fastened in the
round stone which forms the keystone
of the arch. This object is the rack.
A feather covering used to be put over
it upon which the victim was stretched.
Ravaillac remained for six weeks upon
this table, with his hands and feet tied,
bound at the waist by strap attached
to long chain hanging from the. cell
ing. The last ring of this chain was
slipped on to the hook, which I still
saw fixed above my head. Six gentle
men guards and six guards of the pro-
vost department watched him night and
day. Damiens was guarded like Ra7-
aillac in this chamber, and tied down
upon this table during the whole time
occupied by the inquiry and the tlial of
his case. Desrues and Cartouche were
tortured upon it. The Marchioness de
Briuyilliers was stretched upon it stark
naked, fastened down, and, so to speak,
quartered by four chains attached to
the four limbs, and there suffered the
frightful extraordinary torture by
water, which caused her to ask: How
are you going to continue to put that
great barrel of water in this little
body? p
"a whole dark history is there, hav-
ing filtered, SO to speak, drop by drop
into the pores of these stones, these
walls, this vault, this table, this pave
mont, this door. There it all is; it has
never quilted the place. It has been
shut up there; it has been bolted up.
Nothing has escaped from it, nothing
has evaporated; no one has ever spoken,
related, betrayed, revealed anything Of
it. This crypt, which is like the mouth
of funnel turned upside down, this
case made by the hands of man, this
stone box, has kept the secret of all the
blood it has drunk, of all the sbrieks it
has stifed. The frightful occurrences
which have taken place in this Judges
den still palpitate and live, and exhale
all sorts OF miasms. What strange
abomination is this tower placed in the
very middle of the quay, without any
moat or wall to separate it from the
passer-by! Inside the saws, the boots,
the wooden horses, the wheels, the
pincers, the hammers which knock in
the wedges, the kissing OF flesh touched
with the red.hot iron, the splutterine
of blood upon the live embers, the cold
interrogatories of the magistrates, the
,despairing shrieks of tortured man
outside, within four PAGES, citizens COM
ing and going, women chattering, chill
dren playing, trades-pecple selling
their wares. vehicles rolling along. boats
upon the river, the roar of the city, air,
sky, sun, liberty, ~ Wctor Hugo's
Memoirs.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

The total forest area of the United
States, according to the chief of the
forestry division, is 4s9, 1910 900, and of
this 2O,OOO,O 900 acres are in Florida.
But one state, Minnesota, has greater
forest growth; but three, Arkansas,
California and Oregon. are estimated
to have the same acreage. The pro-
portion OF forest to total area in Flor
ida is 56.7 per cent. and the forest
area held in farms is 2,1SG,G0l acres,
or 1919 per cent. of the total forest
area. The proportion of forest in
farms to the total farm area is G6.3 per
cent The area Of land in farms un-
improved, but not in forests, is 1G3, OS3
acres, or 8 per cent. of the total farm
area.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

The explorers recently sent by the
government of Mexico to ascertain the
truth of the report of volcanic erup-
tion in the Sierra Madre mountains
have returned, confirming the report.
The crater was found in the neighbor-
hood of Bayispa, where the late earth
quake occurred, and was emitting
smoke, flame, and lava. From
the side of the cone streams of lava and
boiling water poured down into the ad-
jacent valleys. Vegetation is destroyed
for miles around. Rock of several tons
weight were thrown up by the crater,
which in conjunction with the perilous
assures made by the earthquake rem
dered approach to the crater almost i'm
possible. twas with great difficulty
that the travellers got within three
miles of the scene of action. The
dreadful work of the lava is complete.
No life is visible, and the once prosper
GUS village of Bavispa is no more.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

THERE are but two railroads in
thickly populated New England that
make two cents mile their regular
passenger rate-the New York, New
Haven and Hartford and the Concord
roads. 1t is claimed that many of the
others are perfectly able to carry pas
sengers at good profit at that rate.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

Mr.. wilfred Blunt, and to send another
population tc that country.
The Paris Figaro states that the czar
visited Copenhagen with the view of TAX
ing decisive action in regard to Bulgarian
affairs, and that he has formed an anti
German alliance between Russia, Belgium,
Holland, Sweden and Denmark. Other
powers are expected to join the alliance.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

Georgia. His grandchildren and great
grandchildren are unknown and un-
numbered. He had remarkably good
eyesight and health and never took .
dose of medicine in his life. He had
teeth like ivory and every one was in
his head at the time of death.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

A MOST remarkable imitation OF black
walnut has lately been manufactured
from poor pine, the quality and ap-
pearance of the article being such as to
defy detection except upon very close
examination. To accomplish this, one
part of walnut peel extract is mixed
with six parts of water, and with this
solution the wood is coated. When tho
material is half dry, solution OF
bichromate of potash with water is
rubbed on it, and the made walnut is
ready for use.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

SAMUEL ADAMS TURNER, familiarly
known as Squire Sam. is living in
South Scituate, Mass, at the age of 96
He remembers Ebenezer Cobb, who
died in the first year of this century,
aged 1O7 years, and who had talked
with the children Of those who came
over in the Mayfower.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

Francis JOSEPH, Emperor of Austria
and King of Hungary, has more royal
titles than any other European sover-
eign. He is King of seven countries
or provinces, Grand Prince OF one,
Prince or Margrave of several others,
and Archduke, Grand Duke, and
Duke of half doAn more. He is
considered the richest monarch of
Europe, with the possible exception Of
Queen Victoria. Besides his personal
revenues, which are enormous, the
Emperor manages on various pretexts
to extract about s2,OOO,O 600 year from
the public treasury.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

A WATCH has been invented by the
Swiss watchmakers solely for the use
of blind people. A small peg is set in
the center of each figure. When the
hour-hand is approaching certain
hour the peg for that hour drops when
the quarter before it is passed. The
person feels the peg is down, and then
counts back to -. He can thus tell
the time within few minutes, and by
practice he can become so expert as to
tell the time almost exactly.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

A VALUABLE disinfecting compound
for purifying the atmosphere is de,
scribed in Berlin journal. Oils Of
rosemary, lavender, and thyme, in the
proportion of ten, two and one-half,
and two and one-half parts, respect.
lively, are mixed with nitric acid in the
proportion of thirty to one and one
half Simple as it is the vapor of this
compound is said to possess extraor'
dinary properties in controlling often
sive odors and effluvia.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

A HARTFORD, Conn.,, man sent his
boy into the country, equipped with q
woodchuck trap aud other appliances
for enjoying his vacation, and told him
to have a good time, and be sure to go
to church on Sundays. The first letter
he received from the boy said: "Dear
papa, I've caught woodchuck. It was
skunk. I did not go to church.
Yours affectionately.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

TWENTY-FIVE years ago the citizens
of Fitchburg, Mass, presented Gen.
kimball with handsome war horse,
which he rode through the entire Lou
isiana campaign. The other day the
General rode the same horse ut the an
nual reunion of the veterans of the
Fifty-third Regiment of Massachusetts
Volunteers at Fitchburg. The old fell
low is in excellent condition.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

IT is suggested by Boston yachts
man that an iron keel, hinged upon the
bottom of the boat SO that it would
hang perpendicularly whatever the
position of the yacht, would be q
novelty worth trying. Substantially
the same thing has been tried on small
sailboats and it works well. 1t consists
of board hung from the ends Of out
riggers hinged to the rail of the boat.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

JOHN G. FREMONT is IA years old,
and is gathering materials for history
of his life to be written by himself and
his wife. He carries his years with a
step as springy and form as straight
as they were when he carved path
way over the Rocky Mountains to the
new FL Dorado forty years ago. His
snowy white hair and whiskers are as
neatly kept as were his blonde locks in
the days when he stole the heart OF
pretty Jessie Benton in spite of her
fathers protests
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

A GENTLEMAN while rowing in boat
recently on Crystal Lake near Ravenna,
Ohio, discovered two springs about
fifty feet apart, nearly two-thirds of the
way across the lake. The water from
the springs boiled up number OF
inches above the surface of the lake,
and it was impossible to keep the boat
in place without it being heavily
anchored. The depth there was six
teen feet.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

HuGH WHITFIELD, forty-niner, who
died few days ago at Alameda, CAL,
at the age of II years, erected his own
monument some years ago, It is q
splendid marble shaft, bearing his
name and the dates of his birth and
death, and this epitaph: "He
travelled over the first railway ever
built in England and crossed the At.
lantic in the first steamship that ever
plowed the ocean. He explored many
lands and died in the fullness of the
faith. Amen"
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03
the sll Sc Sergeant. "No troops can :,


my line.s can pns
ABut, man, Johnston b..
dered, and the war is over. 1 coi suifea.
us pass, We want to taste that thu hrs',ssat lst
over there. '' brand!
! must carry out my orders sto,s.
maintained Sergt. Fairclotb ass a,sossly
your men advance they will ha als y. Y !
upon. But" he added, Il am 20 e1als niea
ing orders calling in my men pssI' ass
minute, and if you will wait ne,hs! sIsl!
you may get drop of the brandt d,.nAp
Strange to say the troop waited
the order came. Then there wa sua
grand rush for the barrel, aud aJoSn,sa h, :
Gray and "Yank" got on uaI SlnaI
together. euak
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

myself, I still did not fail to observ,
the great consolation that it gave to al
soldiers, high and low, whose lot wa!
cast where mine was. l can do no bet
ter than to furnish to such comrade!
somebody's very picturesque lines OF
the subject:
! look upon this round, green ball,
Where poets sing and warriors fight,
Where death SO surely sizes all,
And brave mon struggle for the right;
Where, mid the din and woe and strife,
Stout hearts still bear this heavy life;
And SEQ that all the mighty men,
Whose deeds, like beacons, shine afar,
Who WELD the sword and WELD the pen,
Each loves and smokes his good cigar!
In spite of all that has been spoke,
The wreath OF Fame's a wreath Of smoke
And, turning hence mine eyes, bend
TO heaven, and see that every star
Is but the burning, flaming end
OF some tall angels lit cigar;
And, where the Milky Way still dnshes,
Is but the place they knock their ashes!
And the hard-tack.
For the benefit of ignorant citizens
and the new generation it may be ex-
planned that this great staff of the sol.
dier was issued ha6itually in exactly the
shape of soda cracker. The parallel
ceases with shape. They were hard
emphatically hard.
A box of them was once noticed with
the brand, "B. C.-663." The meaning
was not evident, but the soldiers were
not at loss for an Interpretation. "It
is the date of making" said one, 1868
years before Christi"
The recruits, and all green soldiers,
were shy OF them at first; but they
To - =
stand any climate. They were never
fresh, never stale. They were insect
proof. The bugs got into the holes,
and could make no impression. They
had to give it up. Experience made
the soldier wise, and taught him that o
haversack full of hard tack was bless
ing. lie ate them with his bacon; he
fried them; he stewed them; he even
made puddings of them. No veteran
will ever go back on hard tack.
Soon after the close of the war one
of the very best of soldier-songs, on
Hard Tack" was published anony-
mously. I would greatly like to learn
who wrote it. Here it is:
Would you be a soldier, laddy?
Come and serve your Uncle Saml
He henceforth must be your daddy,
And Columbia your dam.
Do you like salt-horse and beans?
Do you know what hard tack meaus2
jolly hard tack, tack, tack, tack
That's the stuff you have to crack!
DO you want to be soldier?
Now's the time to put iii play
What your good old granny told you
or the Revolution day.
What had their brave jaws to chew?
Sometimes nothing-what have you?
Jolly herd-tack. tack, tack, tack
That's the stuff you have to crack
Want to be n soldier. do you?
You must march through swamp and sludCe
And though balls 20 through and through YOU
Blaze away, and never bulge.
But when muskets go crack, crack,
Bite your cartridge and hard tack
jolly hard-tack, tack, tack, tack
That's the stuff you have to crack
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

Give them the honors their future loresaso. ;,o
Give them the chaplnts thoy won in the ssriie
Give them the laurels they lost with their I'VE
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

+ EpMUND MONTGOMERY died on Nick
Jordan's place, near the county line of
schley, Ga, aged 102 years. He was
an African chief Of the Askari tribe and
was taken; to Virginia from Africa in
1907. when he was atalwart young
man, He had a large family in yir~
ginia, and when he died he left his
third wife and twenty-five children in
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

were times when it was issued free
with the ration, and other times, pretty
far down in Dixie, when the boys
issued ii to themselves whenever they
could lay hands on it. Not using it
myself, I still did not fail to observe
the great consolation that it gave to all
soldiers, high and low. whose lot was
cast where mine was. 1 can do no bet
ter than to furnish to such comrades
somebody's very picturesque lines on
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

The car in which Abraham Lincoln
made the journey from Buffalo to AL
bany on his way to Washington for his
first inauguration is still running on the
Auburn branch of the New York Cen
trail Railroad. The ceiling is decorated
with the national flag, and at one end
is portrait of Lincoln and at the other
one Of Washington. The car, now
known as No. $40, was new in Febru-
ary. 1861, and was decorated for the
purpose Of carrying the President. 1t
is still in good condition and runs reg
ularly.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03

Wet goods never change fashion
with the season. Wdtey.loo OJserpsf,